Impact Report
Jan - May 22
At Novus, we're on a mission to create a world of endless opportunities – harnessing the collective power of our spending to transform lives, save species and regenerate nature.
In our first Impact Report, you'll find our data for the quarter, as well as further insights into some of the projects we’ve helped to fund to date.
Together, this is what we've achieved in over the last 4 months since we launched the Novus app!
Impact
This map shows the places our NGO’s are working
During our first four months since launch in early 2022, our community has used their everyday spending to generate:
2,946
Turtles saved with SEE Turtles
5,432
Meals shared with FareShare
445
Corals planted with Coralive
155
Malaria nets provided with Against Malaria Foundation
237
Books delivered with Book Aid International
14,331
Days of clean water funded with charity:water
213
Period packs donated with Bloody Good Period
1,289
Trachoma treatments with Sightsavers
11,251
Hours of solar light funded with SolarAid
53,629
Trees planted with Eden Reforestation
charity:water is a non-profit organisation with the mission of bringing clean and safe water to people around the world who don’t have access to it.
Clean water impacts health, education, gender equality and economic opportunities.
Since its foundation in 2006, charity:water has founded 91,414 water projects which will serve 14,762, 215 people in 29 countries.
Our members are able to track their daily carbon emissions, and consequently offset their remaining carbon footprint in-app with the most effective carbon reduction projects.
In our first 4 months, our community has taken action to collectively offset 85,805 kilograms of carbon emissions.
85,805 kg carbon offset
On an average, this is equal to:
Run the dishwasher 86,671 times at 65ºC
619,978 km driven in a medium diesel car
343 one way trips from London to Madrid
Thus, this project aims to generate 320,000 MWh of renewable electricity every year and feed it into Vietnam’s national grid, helping to bridge the gap between supply and demand that currently exists. Also, by replacing electricity generated from fossil fuel fired power plants with electricity generated using wind power, this project will prevent around 143,000 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere every year.
Click here to learn more about this project.
What we spend our money on matters - we want to make it easy to find ethical options when you need to buy something new.
We have welcomed over 130 brands onto our ethical brand marketplace to date, across homeware, clothing, travel, food & drink, beauty and more. As part of our due diligence we ask these partners to provide specific details on their sustainability practices and certifications.
Here are a few examples of certifications that are held by different brands across our network:
Since 2021 we have been B Corp certified, which makes us part of a global network that doesn’t promote growth over values and is working together to ensure that this ethos becomes the new status quo.
We're proud to be 1 of more than 5,000 B Corps in 150 sectors and 80 countries. Because we can only make progress if we work together. Check out our blog below for more info on our B Corp journey!
We want to say a big thank you for your amazing support since the launch of the Novus App.
We're very excited for the continued growth of Novus' impact!
